Professor Donger: This chapter was a bitch and a half to write but we got it done, Hope you all enjoy it! it's 4 in the morning I gotta sleep.
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Izumi was in front of the gathered Twice clones plus the original. She was taking calming breaths because the scolding wasn't going as intended.
Twice was talking back.
"But Big Sis, she is American, and eighteen years old! Her right to bear arms shall not be infringed!"
"Okay, she's American, I'll give you that." Why is she arguing with them?! "But we aren't in America right now!"
The Twice clones all gasped before looking at one another and then Izumi "That's treasonous talk!" One of them shouted, "You sound like a fed!" Another yelled.
Izumi palmed her face or tried to, though her helmet blocked the action. "Jin, I am LITERALLY part of the Texas National Guard, and thus the military!"
"SHE IS A FED!" Then the panic started as all the Twice clones started running. "YOU'RE NOT GETTING MY TAX MONEY!"
"JIN! GET YOUR ASSES BACK HERE THIS INSTANT!"
"She's… she's really mad, isn't she?" Ejirou asked Katsuki as they witnessed all that on the monitors.
Pony was still in her own little version of Heaven as she hugged The Sweet Business like it was her baby, and Ochako was next to her, trying and failing to contain her giggles at the sight.
But Katsuki wasn't focused on them. He was focused on the monitors.
Specifically, the one that showed Flintlock, who had rounded up the Twice Clones and was currently chewing them out like a mother who caught their precious angel of a child smoking crack.
Coincidentally, Twice left the audio on. And what they heard was… interesting.
"Jin! This isn't up for argument! You gave them guns! My guns! Do you know how dangerous that could have been?! What made you think it was a good idea to give a student a loaded, custom-made, borderline minigun?! Do you have any idea how powerful Mel-"
All Might then pressed a button, turning off the audio. "Let's um… get to the review, shall we?"
All Might began his lecture, but Katsuki tuned him out, instead focusing on the conundrum that had been plaguing him since the class had started.
Gun Nut was giving him major déjà vu vibes, and he couldn't place his finger on why. Some of her mannerisms and the fact that she was quirkless just screamed Deku to him. But that was impossible. Deku had given up on being a hero when she moved, hadn't she?
Looking back at Gun Nut's fight with Pervert and Miss Encyclopedia, he noticed some similarities. The way she twirled her guns screamed Snipe and was similar to some of the things Deku would do with her toy guns when they were kids.
The costume she wore, especially the mask, also caused an uncomfortable feeling of nostalgia to hit him upside the head, but he couldn't place it.
But Gun Nut also held herself in a way that Deku never did. Where Deku was unsure and uncomfortable in her own skin, Gun Nut was comfortable and sure of herself. Where Deku slouched, Gun Nut would stand tall.
It was all very confusing.
It didn't help that Aunty Inko didn't keep his family posted on Deku's activities at all, mainly out of forgetfulness rather than any form of malice on her part. But it still annoyed Katsuki to no end.
The last thing his family knew about Deku was that she was attending some fancy university in Texas to take over her father's company.
He didn't blame Deku for giving up on their… her dream, at least not as much as he did when he was younger. Quirkless people were treated like shit. He saw that first hand whenever they'd go to the park or when she'd pick him up from school. The whispered disdain or pity coming out of people's mouths made him want to blow something or someone up.
So when she moved to America and never called or wrote, he didn't worry. For all he knew, she was busy getting her life together and focusing on school.
Even if the little voice in the back of his head whispered things to discourage his faith…
Shaking his head, he realized that All Might had called him and Shitty Hair up next as the last students to go up against Gun Nut for the day.
Fucking finally.
Ignoring Shitty Hair's exclamation of "so manly!" He started making his way to the field.
Time to show these wannabes what a true hero looks like.
Katsuki and Ejiro took the field quickly and waited for the timer to go off like everyone else. Ejiro was about to ask if he wanted to make a plan when he noticed that his normally fiery teammate seemed to be lost in thought again. He tapped Katsuki on the shoulder, causing the bomber to glare at him.
"Do you think we need a plan, bro?" Ejiro asked. He expected Katsuki to blow up at him, but surprisingly the young man didn't.
"What's the hardest you've been hit while using your quirk?" Katsuki quietly asked.
Ejiro frowned and crossed his arms over his chest in thought. "Well, when I was a kid, I awakened my quirk by pushing someone out of the way of a car. I was fine, with only a few scrapes and bruises. While the car…" he shook his head. "Anyway, without my quirk active, I can probably tank a few of Sensei's rubber bullets as long as they aren't too big. With my quirk I should be able to handle it, no problem!" He gave Kastuki a thumbs up, which his teammate ignored.
"When we find her, I want you to rush her. Don't give her time to do any of her bullshit. With her distracted trying to take you down, I'll go in for the kill." Ejiro expected Katsuki to grin at that as he did with any exclamation he made, but once more he was surprised as he just kept frowning, seemingly lost in thought.
The buzzer rang, and All Might told them to start. With no sign of their opponent, the two slowly made their way into the city, mindful of traps and other shenanigans.
"Something up bro? You seem busy up here." Ejirou tapped his head with a finger. He glanced around the street, noting the billboards and other ambush spots that Flintlock could be hiding behind.
"Something about Gun Nut is giving me déjà vu," Katsuki answered, continuing to keep an eye out as they made their way down the street.
"Really? Who does she remind you of?"
Katsuki thought for a moment, thinking back at all the shenanigans Deku would get into, and answered. "... Someone who's cringe."
"That's rich coming from you." A familiar voice echoed throughout the street and the two of them glanced around, trying to find Flintlock, and quickly noticed that her voice was coming from a nearby billboard which was being used as a screen to project images.
"What's up, gamers?"
"Come out and fight coward!" Katsuki growled, quirk popping in his hands while he ignored the sense of déjà vu as it grew stronger.
Ejirou just looks confused. "What the hell?"
Flintlock then appeared in the middle of the street as a projection, lounging on a nearby car lazily. Her mannerisms, movements, and way of speaking all seemed awfully familiar to Katsuki.
"Let me tell you, something heroes. You're normies, and basic as fuck."
Ejirou squared up. "Tell us where you are so we can fight! Face to face."
"That's cringe, Red, and your setup is weak." Her projection then disappeared from the middle of the street, only to appear on the side of one of the many buildings. "You can't even project yourself onto a building." She disappeared again and then appeared once more on a nearby billboard, "Or a billboard."
"Yeah, keep talking," Ejirou said. "The more time you waste, the closer we are to winning."
Flintlock chuckled. "Cope and seethe, Red. You're both out in the open. I could have ended this little standoff of ours at any moment." The projection then pointed right at him. "Just take a look at your chest."
Ejirou down, and Katsuki quickly glanced over at his chest. Both of their eyes widened at the red dot on Ejirou's sensor.
"Shit!" Ejirou hardened his arm and shielded the sensor just in time to save it from getting shattered.
"But lucky for you." The projection disappeared, and on the other side of the street, walking out of a nearby alleyway, was their sensei with her revolver. "I like to make things interesting."
Katsuki didn't wait for another word. He immediately blasted off towards Flintlock, aiming a fast right hook towards her face. Instantly, as if she already knew what he was going to do, she countered. She grabbed his arm and flipped him over her shoulder before tossing him into a car, leaving a Katsuki-sized dent in its side and knocking the wind out of him momentarily.
She readied her revolver to shoot out his sensor, but before she could fire she bent backward, barely limboing under a hardened punch, and immediately converted her backward momentum into a backflip to get away as Ejirou went on the assault. Once she landed, she opened fire on him, but his hardened skin allowed him to shrug off the bullets as he charged her down, simply covering his sensor with his hand to protect it.
Not trying to back herself into a corner, Flintlock vaulted over Ejirou as he charged her, he tried to stop but she used his back as a springboard and the momentum from his charge, as well as her kick off his back, sent him hurtling through a nearby wall. But of course, once the dust cleared, he was shown to be completely fine, dusting himself off with a wide grin.
"That all you got?!"
Flintlock idly looked down at her revolver, then back at Ejirou. "Might need something a bit bigger for you." She muttered, before turning and heading into the alley.
"Get back here!" Ejirou immediately gave chase down the alleyway, much to Katsuki's chagrin.
"Shitty Hair," Katsuki groaned as he finally caught his breath, "Wait."
But Ejirou didn't stop. If he could keep up the attack, not give her time to think, then they could win. That was the plan, wasn't it? Use his quirk to rush her. He saw the end of Flintlock's cloak turn the corner ahead, and without a second thought, he followed.
He grinned as he first noticed that she was headed straight for a dead end. But his smile quickly fell when he noticed the elephant in the alley.
Elephant, as in a fucking cannon aimed right at him.
"Tally ho, lads!" Flintlock exclaimed before she opened fire on him.
"OH SHI-" Ejirou could barely get his arms in front of himself before the cannonball sent him flying into the opposite wall. The impact collapsed part of the wall on him, as well as kicked up dirt.
"Just as the Founding Fathers intended." Flintlock said to herself as she reached over to a trashcan and pulled out from behind it a lever-action shotgun. She then approached the downed student.
Meanwhile, Katsuki made his way through the alley, the smoke obscuring his vision. As he continued after his partner, he came upon a sight that he probably should have expected, but was still annoying to find. That being his teammate effectively having been eliminated.
"Shit."
He saw through the smoke as Flintlock stood over the down and dazed Ejirou, his sensor in her left hand, a gun in the other.
"Ejirou Kirishima has been eliminated!" All Might notified them.
"So," Flintlock began with a roll of her shoulder, "Just me and you."
Katsuki growled as he stalked forward.
"Oh? You're approaching me? Even after what I did to your teammate, instead of running away, you still approach?"
Katsuki couldn't help the feral grin that made its way onto his face. "I can't kick your ass without getting closer." Small explosions began to pop in his hands.
"Then by all means," Flintlock crushed the sensor in her hand and rechambered the shotgun in her other hand with a fancy one-handed spin. "Get as close as you'd like.
"Bring it on, Gun Nut!" Katsuki then launched himself forward with explosions from his palms, and the fight began again.
Meanwhile…
"HOLY SHIT SHE DID THE TERMINATOR RELOAD!"
Mina was freaking out.
"SHE IS LIKE A TERMINATOR! SHE'S AWESOME!"
Pony couldn't help herself either. "I KNOW RIGHT?!"
"All Might-Sensei!" Tenya chopped his arms. "That last attack by Flintlock-Sensei was extremely dangerous! Kirishima could have gotten badly hurt!"
"Relax, Young Iida. I understand your concern for your classmate, but Flintlock knows what she's doing. She has a good idea of your limits based on both your files, as well as the test you took with Aizawa, not to mention the Entrance Exams. If she wasn't certain that Young Kirishima would be okay, she would not have used the cannon, I assure you." All Might tried to calm him down, smiling his signature smile at him.
"Isn't a cannon kind of overkill, though?" Kyouka voiced. "How did she even get a cannon out there?"
"How do you think?" Hanta looked over towards Twice, who was back in his chair at the monitors. He returned before the match started, seeming dejected and even scared. He kept saying something about not making Big Sister mad again.
"Okay yeah. That checks out."
"As for being overkill," Ochako said, as both she and Pony each held up a finger.
"There is no such thing as overkill!" They both said together, with proud expressions.
"..."
"...That's concerning. Kero."
"It's true, is what it is! They've lost their minds!"
Katsuki used the explosions from his palms to launch himself towards Flintlock, but he had misjudged how close the walls of the alleyway were. The moment she pointed her shotgun at him, he tried to reposition, but the walls prevented effective movement and for his efforts, he almost received a face full of rubber buckshot.
Thankfully, he blocked the shot with one of his gauntlets just in time. Repositioning in the air he blasted his way away from her, landing back where he started and fleeing back into the open street.
Flintlock gave chase almost immediately, only stopping to nod to the Twice clones who came to pick up Ejiro and move him to safety.
Flintlock loaded a round into her shotgun as she ran, praising Katsuki for his quick repositioning in her head. 'He knows he can't fight me in the alleyway, too close quarters for him to safely get close up to me like he'd want to, so he'd rather drag the fight out somewhere he's most comfortable, and he knows I'd have to chase him if I want to win, I can't just let him escape... That's the Kachan I know!'
Stopping in a slide, she barely ducked under a flying manhole cover that was moving at terminal velocity and smoking from Katsuki's quirk. "What is with you kids and manhole covers!?"
He didn't answer. Instead, he thrust his hands out in front of him, launching an enormous explosion in front of him. Flintlock prepared to dodge, but the explosion stopped short. She cautiously tried to lift her shotgun when she noticed a hand grabbing it from the smoke. Katsuki came from inside the smoke and grinned "Got you, Gun Nut." he quickly ripped the gun from her hands, throwing it to the side before pointing his undamaged gauntlet at her unprotected chest "DIE!" with that, he pulled the pin.
The world went white for both Flintlock and Katsuki, though Katsuki recovered faster. He hadn't braced himself properly for the blast, even if the gauntlet was only half full the blast was still substantial, so he found himself sent away from Gun Nut by a couple of feet, with the kinetic force blasting his teacher into a nearby wall.
The smoke still hadn't cleared and Katsuki prepared to move forward to assess if she was okay or not when he heard rubble moving from within the smoke and coughing.
"Jesus Christ, that hurt." Gun Nut's voice rasped in English. She stumbled out of the dust, and it was then Katsuki noticed something… well, two somethings. One, her hood was completely gone, revealing the smooth cloth and polymer helmet underneath, which was cracked in a spiderweb pattern all along the face. Two, and most importantly, her left arm was completely gone, and Katsuki felt the adrenaline leave him at that moment.
"W… what?" he muttered, stepping back in shock. That explosion… it shouldn't have been strong enough to… did he just maim his teacher?
Flintlock looked around for a moment before shaking her head.
"Hold…" she coughed and held up a finger. "Hold on one second. I can't see shit." She reached her left and right arms up to unhook her helmet when she seemed to finally notice the missing appendage chuckling as she let the left one drop. "When I told you kids to disarm me, I didn't mean literally…"
Quickly and efficiently for someone missing an arm, she unhooked the back of her helmet and let it fall. Revealing curly green hair that fell just past her ears and a freckled face Katsuki remembered from his childhood. She was older and had a small scar on her left cheek and another just under her right eye, but it was her.
Katsuki stared at her for what felt like a long time. It really was her. A name he hadn't said in years made its way out of his mouth.
"Deku-Nee…"
Her smile widened and other than the bloody nose, she looked pretty much the same as the day she left…
"Hello, Kachan." With that, she pulled her revolver from her hip with a flourish and fired.
Katsuki fell back as his sensor exploded from the shot, but he barely even felt it or his back hitting the pavement.
Izumi was home…
'... And she just fucking shot me!'
"Ow!" Katsuki propped himself up on an arm and glared at Izumi. "That hurt, you dick!"
Izumi spun her revolver in her hand and holstered it with a flourish. "Yeah, well, that's for blowing off my arm!"
"You couldn't have given me a warning?!"
"Not my fault you were slow!"
"Fuck you!"
"Fuck you!"
"Why are we yelling?!"
"I don't know! You started it!"
"What… what am I watching right now?" Kyouka, along with pretty much everyone, stared in confusion at the scene on the monitors.
"I… have no idea." Ochako scratched her head. "Pony, you're the Flintlock expert here. Do you know what's happening?"
Pony turned and shook her head. "I am confusion."
"Wow," Denki said, "Not even she knows. On another note, so that's what she looks like under the mask? Bro, she looks super young!"
"But still old enough to be a hero," Momo observed.
"Uhm, guys, is no one gonna talk about what just happened?!" Mina yelled.
"What do you mean, Ashido?" Momo turned to their pink-skinned classmate.
"I'm talking about how Bakugou BLEW HER ARM OFF!"
"... What?" Pony breathed out.
"Look!" Mina pointed at the screen.
Everyone looked at the screen and noticed that Flintlock's left arm was missing.
Cue chaos erupting.
Due to the smoke from the explosion, no one caught Flintlock's arm getting blown off. But now that the smoke cleared, it was clear as day that the gunslinger was missing one of her limbs.
Pony especially was horrified. Her idol was just maimed right in front of her. In class.
"Ochako…" she said in English, grabbing her friend's shoulder with one hand, and covering her mouth with the other, accidentally dropping Sweet Business in the process. "I think I might throw up."
Ochako didn't understand what she said, but she easily recognized the gestures. "No, Pony, do not throw up! That's my thing!" She tried to calm her friend down.
"All Might-Sensei!" Tenya was panicking, and this time it was actually justifiable. "Flintlock-Sensei has just been severely injured! Why are you not calling the match and calling for emergency medical services?!"
All Might quickly tried to calm the class down. "Everyone, please! Remain calm! Flintlock is okay!"
"Are you serious?! She's missing an arm!" Somebody yelled.
"Yes, I can see that her arm fell off!"
"So why aren't you calling for help?!" Ochako yelled as she rubbed Pony's back.
"Big Sis can reattach her own arm! She's a big girl, and can do it herself!" Twice chimed in.
"Wait, what do you mean, reattach?" Momo questioned.
"It will all be explained soon, Young Yaoyorozu. Please remain calm as I end the match." All Might turned to the monitors, which showed Katsuki and Flintlock still having their verbal argument. "And this argument, it seems." He then reached for a button on the monitor controls.
"The match is over! Flintlock wins!" All Might announced over the intercom, silencing the argument between the two.
Katsuki didn't care. He groaned and tried to stand, but stopped when he got on his knees and was met by the absolutely beaming face of Deku, as well as her outstretched right hand.
"That was amazing! Probably the second-best fight I'm gonna get out of you firsties today! You know, considering you still lost. But still! You've gotten so much better with your quirk and-" she was rambling like she always did like nothing ever changed, and her smile still annoyed him...but when he took her hand and let her pull him up, he couldn't stop himself from pulling her into a hug.
"I missed you, jackass." He muttered.
He heard Deku hiccup out a laugh or maybe it was a cry and whispered out, "I missed you too, asshole."
They stood like that for a moment before Izumi pulled back and smiled at him.
"Hey, Kacchan?" She asked.
"What is it, nerd?"
There was a glint in her eye that Katsuki noticed just before she said her next words.
And she had to go with something she always joked about when they were little.
"... I'm still thicc."
Yeah, she had unrestricted access to the internet.
Katsuki let out a shout of frustration before he turned away and threw his hands into the air.
Izumi began laughing her ass off. Oh, it was still so easy to rile him up.
She heard a whistle from the side and looked to see one of Twice's clones trying to get her attention. He was waving her missing arm in the air. She nodded and held her right arm out to catch it as he threw it to her before he ran off to get her guns situated. She then easily reattached her arm into its proper place.
She was still laughing the whole time.
Katsuki was still mad. "You ruined it! You ruined the moment!"
"And you're still cringe!" She shouted back.
Katsuki turned back to her. "DAMNIT DEKU! I'LL KILL YOU!"
"You'll have to catch me first!" Izumi yelled as she took off for the viewing room, Katsuki chasing after her.
"GET BACK HERE AND ACCEPT OBLIVION!"
"WHOOP WHOOP WHOOP WHOOP WHOOP!"
The two made their way back to the rest of the class after Katsuki chased Flintlock for a few more moments. Katsuki's permanent scowl was now replaced by his mouth being set in a thin line, which was the closest the class had ever gotten to seeing him smile.
"Alright, so you know the drill. What did they do right?" All Might started.
Momo, of course, was the first to answer. "They had Kirishima act more aggressively, seeing as his quirk allowed him to stay safe from Flintlock-Sensei's rubber bullets. However, Kirishima should not have run off without his teammate, as Flintlock-Sensei's cannon immediately took him out. Bakugou was smart to be less aggressive when he himself had little in the way of protection, but knew he had to switch tactics once Kirishima was out of the match. It was also smart to leave the alleyway. It gave him more room to move around, and using the smoke from his explosions to hide also allowed him to disarm Flintlock."
"Literally." Flintlock said as she moved her left arm around, making sure it was still functioning properly. The prosthetic hand twitched and she winced. "He took my advice a bit too seriously."
"Wait." Pony said. "You are… uh…" She struggled to think of the Japanese word, then decided to just ask in English. "So you're a cyborg?"
They heard Twice snort from his chair "She fucking wishes…"
"Twice." She said with a warning tone and a glance, her beaming smile leaving her face replaced by a slight frown. The duplicator backed down immediately, and she turned to address Pony, smiling again. "Actually, by definition, I kinda am a cyborg." Tapping her prosthetic with her good arm.
The class was so used to seeing the helmeted face of their sensei by now that her incredibly expressive face was kind of freaking most of them out. She was just so bright!
"But it's kinda cool! My arm has enhanced strength, offers better dexterity and range of motion, and it doubles as a grappling hook!" Flintlock tried to demonstrate by launching her hand like she always did but instead of flying off in a direction like it normally would, the hand kind of tumbled out of place and fell to the ground.
"… Fuck. I'm in so much trouble." She muttered while Twice laughed hysterically in the background.
"Isn't this your second one?" All Might asked with a frown.
"Hey!" Flintlock pointed a finger at him. "Second one amongst the Mark One models! The Mark Two is still in great condition!"
"I don't think she'll care, Young Midoriya…"
Flintlock sighed and slumped a little. "You're right! I'll be lucky if she doesn't kill me over the fact that this happened during a class session, and not against some villain… unless…" She turned to Katsuki, pulling out her puppy dog eyes. "Do you think you can pretend to be a villain for me? I'll give you extra credit!"
Everyone in the class, even All Might, who had been subjected to the dreaded eyes before, felt like selling their soul and killing a man for this precious woman before them…
Except…
"Fuck off." Katsuki said with zero hesitation.
'He resisted them!' Was everyone's first immediate thought.
"Bakugou!" Tenya began chopping his arms. "That is no way to speak to our sensei!"
"Eh, it's fine Iida." Flintlock waved it off. "This is how we've always talked to each other. It would feel weird if he didn't talk to me that way."
"Yeah, about that," Denki raised his hand. "What's the relationship here? I mean, Bakugou hugged you. I thought his version of a hug would be more… explody."
Katsuki growled, growled, at the class, "You fuckers saw nothing!"
All the while Flintlock was busy embarrassing him. "Oh, I've known Kacchan his whole life. I practically changed his diapers." She smiled and bowed politely to the class. "Since the class is almost over, I can properly introduce myself. I'm Izumi Midoriya, your primary Fundamental Heroics teacher."
"Sensei, you are awesome!" Mina couldn't contain her excitement. "But let's back up! Please, tell me you have embarrassing childhood stories about Bakugou!"
Izumi grinned, and Katsuki felt his reputation fucking die.
"Girl, I have pictures to go along with those stories."
"Deku, you better fucking not!" Katsuki yelled.
"Oh, I remember this one time-"
"AAARRGH!"
It was too late. Izumi was already going into a flashback, and she was dragging Katsuki with her.
"It's over Kacchan!" A ten-year-old Izumi yelled. "I have the high ground!"
"Deku-Nee," Five-year-old Katsuki looked at her, unimpressed. "You're just standing on a molehill."
Izumi looked down at her feet, at said molehill.
"...My ground is still higher than yours."
Katsuki just facepalmed. "Why are you like this?"
Izumi pointed at him and pouted. "And why are you cringe?"
"What does that even mean?!" Katsuki threw his hands into the air.
Izumi crossed her arms and smirked at him. "It means that your butt will always be cringe, and my butt will always be thicc."
"Deku-Nee…." Katsuki deadpanned. Normally a five-year-old wouldn't know what any of this meant, nor would a ten-year-old for that matter, but both of them were in constant contact with Mitsuki, so...
"Thiccer than a dump truck!"
"Deku…"
"Thiccer than thicc! Extra thicc even!"
"Izumi, please stop."
"Never!"
"AAARRGH!"
"... I don't have any pictures of that, unfortunately, but you all should have seen how adorable he looked when he got angry and he would set off little fireworks of rage in his hands."
Katsuki groaned into his hands as the class laughed at the mental image. "Why did the old hag have no filter around us?" He complained.
"Oh stop it, Kacchan. I would have found out, eventually. I had unrestricted access to the internet, and a lot of time to kill when I wasn't hanging out with you." Izumi told him.
Mina was howling with laughter as she tried to speak. "More… tell us more! Please!"
"I'd love to, but class is over." All Might had already excused himself and dipped out of the class, seemingly in a rush. "Maybe later-"
"No! Never!" Katsuki protested, but Izumi just continued.
"- But you all did great today!" Izumi gave them all a thumbs up. "We'll continue this exercise with the other half of the class that didn't get to fight tomorrow. For now, head on back to the locker rooms. And heads up, I'm going to stop by and take down any changes you want to be done to your hero suits so the support department can get started on those ASAP. Twice will do the same for the boys… speaking of…"
She turned around to her assistant. "Jin, have all the clones round up my equipment and take it back, would you? While they're doing that, get the boy's costume critiques down, I'll ask Kirishima when he's out of the infirmary."
"Yes Ma'am! Do it yourself!" Despite his contradiction, Twice ran off to do as told.
"Alright, class dismissed!" Flintlock clapped her hands as she said that.
Izumi didn't even change out of her hero outfit before heading to the girl's locker room. She wanted to get the girls' thoughts on their own outfits first before doing anything else. After all, they came first.
She stepped inside and was greeted warmly by the girls of Class 1-A, which made her smile. "Alright, let's get this done so I can get out of your hair." She clicked her pen and went down her list.
"Alright, first up is Ashido. Got anything you wanna say about yours?"
Mina shrugged. "I like mine the way it is! It just screams me, you know!"
Izumi grinned and nodded "True that, but I would recommend adding some extra padding, maybe change the body suit's material to something sturdier? Or add some sleeves to the jacket?"
Mina frowned. "Well, I don't really want sleeves since I kinda need to have my skin uncovered for my acid…"
Izumi blinked and frowned. "Hmm, well those are some thoughts for later down the road after you've worked in it for a while, but you don't have any immediate changes, right?" At Mina's headshake, Izumi nodded "Well then you're good, so next is Asui!"
Tsuyu put a finger to her chin in thought. "I think they got everything I wanted right. Kero." She nodded. "The wetsuit is nice and warm and I have tear and cut resistant gloves for my hands and feet. I'm not really looking to be to combat-oriented. Mainly rescue-focused, so yeah, I think I'm good. Kero."
Izumi tilted her head, looking Tsuyu up and down for a moment, before nodding. "Yea, you're pretty solid. So next up!" She pointed to Pony, who eeped. "Miss Tsunotori!"
Pony gulped before looking at the different belts placed all around her outfit. "Can I has bullet belt?"
Izumi raised an eyebrow. "A bandolier? But why would…" Her eyes widened, and she made an 'o' shape with her mouth when she realized. She chuckled and gave Pony a smile. "We'll see. Other than that, anything else?"
Pony shook her head, and Izumi checked her off the list before turning to Ochako. "What about you, Miss Uraraka? Any changes or complaints?"
Ochako observed herself for a moment with a frown. "I didn't like how skintight the suit was, but it's grown on me and it didn't tear or rip when I was running around and diving behind cover! So I know it's sturdy…" she tapped her foot against the ground "But could I maybe replace the heels?"
"Oh, I looked over some of the costume designs. Not sure you noticed today, but your boots were actually made with springs in those heels there to assist with landing." Izumi pointed at said heels.
"Wait, really?" Ochako gave a few test jumps and noticed that her landing was softer than normal. "I didn't know that!"
"Yeah, a few tweaks were made to your costumes based on quirk information, so you girls may have noticed some details you didn't include with the designs you originally submitted," Izumi explained. "Anything else about your costume, Uraraka?"
"None that I can think of." She answered.
"Okay, just know you can request any changes. You can get more details about that from Power Loader, the head of our Support Department. Now next up… Miss Jirou. Anything you wanna say about your costume?"
The punk rocker shrugged "Not really, I haven't gotten to test it yet after all, so I'm chill with it as it is right now."
"Hmm." Izumi tapped her chin with her pen, then pointed it at Kyouka. "Your quirk has to do with sound, right?"
"Yeah," Kyouka placed her foot on the bench and displayed her boot that seemed to have speakers in it. "I have these so I can use my jacks to push sounds into them, giving me more range and being able to direct the soundwaves."
Izumi tilted her head. "Smart thinking, but why in the boots?"
Kyouka blinked at her. "... I'm sorry?"
"Well, wouldn't the arms be a better place for weaponry like that? They are easier to move around and closer to your jacks than your legs are."
Kyouka stared for a bit before facepalming. "Why didn't I think of that?"
Izumi and a few of the other girls laughed good-heartedly at Kyouka's reaction.
"I'll add it to the list." Izumi wrote it down. "If you have nothing else…" Kyouka shook her head. "Okay then, next one. Miss Hagakure… please tell me you aren't naked."
Toru waved a gloved hand around. "Of course I'm not!"
"Oh, thank God." Izumi sighed in relief.
"I have my gloves and boots on!"
"..."
"..."
"... You're joking, right?" Izumi deadpanned.
"Uhm… no?" Toru asked more than answered.
"So… you're not wearing a suit made of DNA-coded fabric?"
"Wait, that's a thing?!" Toru yelled in surprise.
Izumi slammed her head into her clipboard. "I'm gonna kill someone in support." She whispered in English. "I'm gonna kill someone, and it's gonna be done using the Huckleberry."
She turned to Toru. "Talk to Power Loader immediately after class. I'll give you a note for Aizawa to explain why you didn't come to homeroom." She wrote a note down and handed it to Toru, then looked at the last name on her clipboard.
"Last, but not least, Miss Yaoyorozu." She raised an eyebrow at Momo. "Why is your outfit a sheet? I like the outfit underneath, but why a cape? And why a bookshelf?"
Mina raised a hand. "You wear a cape Sensei!"
Izumi clicked her tongue, "It's a cloak. And All Might wore his Silver Age outfit, so I decided to do the same and also wear one of my old costumes. I haven't worn a cloak since I graduated." She shrugged. "Capes can be a liability, is all I'm saying. They get caught on things and can be a hazard, it's why even All Might really doesn't wear one anymore."
Momo nodded. "I have the cape to hide what I'm making from view, so villains can't easily guess what I'm doing and react accordingly. It also easily comes off by simply pulling, so I won't get caught on anything."
Izumi held a hand up to her chest. "Oh, thank God! If your answer was 'because it looks cool', I was going to be upset." She paused in thought and frowned. "Now explain the bookshelf."
"Well, it contains information about molecular structures and chemicals involved in certain reactions that-"
"Okay, hold on." Izumi stopped her. "Because we're running short on time, I'll just cut to the issue. When are you going to have time to search that book for what you're looking for?" Izumi asked.
"I'm… sorry?" Momo was confused.
"In the middle of a life or death scenario, you won't be able to look through that book without being in a rush and/or panicking."
"Well… I… uhm…"
"And honestly, that's not even my main issue with the shelf," Izumi admitted. "My main issue… is just how dangerous it is." She looked at Momo with a face of concern. "If you fall the wrong way, then that bookshelf could end up hurting you. It's a hindrance."
"I… I didn't think about that." Momo looked at the shelf on her hip.
"It's ultimately up to you, but we can get rid of it and find a better alternative to the bookshelf if you want." Izumi offered.
"That… that sounds like the best course of action. Thank you, Sensei." Momo smiled.
"Of course. Now, one more thing." Izumi pointed down to Momo's feet. "Were those shoes comfortable to be standing in that whole time?"
Momo looked down at her shoes and frowned. "Actually, I think they messed up the design for mine. I didn't want heels like these."
"We can fix them so you can be more comfortable." Izumi wrote it down in her notes.
"Thank you again, Sensei."
"Hey, it was no problem. I'm happy to… help…" Izumi trailed off.
"Uhm, Sensei?" Tsuyu asked. "Are you-"
"Shh." Izumi held up a finger and tilted her head so her ear was facing more up.
"Guys, check it out! Our senpais left us a gift!" Minoru's voice was quiet, but not quiet enough. If the girls were all chatting and gossiping, no one besides maybe Kyouka, with her enhanced hearing, would have noticed.
But they weren't, they quieted down when Izumi told them to. So Minoru's voice was heard loud and clear.
Other than his frankly offensive list of the girls and their "assets", as well as the boys trying to pry him away from the peephole, everything was silent in the girls' locker room.
Until it wasn't. In the time between Minoru's discovery, Izumi had moved to the door and squeezed the doorknob with her prosthetic hand so hard that it dented it. She smiled at the girls but it was robotic and didn't quite reach her eyes, unlike her previous smiles earlier. "I'll deal with this. You'll know when it's safe to get changed."
With that, their teacher power walked out of the room. Before the girls heard the distinct sound of a door being kicked open on the men's side of the wall, followed by shouts of indignation from the boys.
"Deku! What the hell?!" they heard Katsuki shout.
"Flintlock-Sensei, this is most-" Tenya began only to be cut off.
"Everyone of you get a shirt on and get the hell out." The girls heard the boys grumble and begin filing out of the locker room, only for the sound of Minoru squeaking to reach their ears.
"Not you, Mineta. You and I need to have a talk. Let's go to my office."
The girls all flinched when they heard the boy's locker room door get slammed shut. The girl's locker room was silent as they waited for a bit. They didn't wait long as the door creaked open and the sound of the boys marching back into the locker room, followed by Izumi speaking once again.
"The rest of you. Go head back in and stay away from where that hole was. I covered it already, but it's temporary until someone can properly patch it up. If I find out any of you use it, there will be severe consequences. Do I make myself clear?" They heard Izumi say in a dead-serious tone.
"Yes, Sensei!" All the boys said even Katsuki, and the girls swore they heard a bit of fear leaking from their voices.
"Good. Twice should be by soon to get your costume details. Sit tight until then."
A knock was heard on the door. "Girls, it's safe to change now. If any of the boys try to use that peephole, then do what you have to within reason, and report it to me. Now, if you excuse me, I gotta go have a chat with Mineta."
They heard their teacher leave, and the locker room remained silent after that.
"...Flintlock-Sensei is scary. Kero."
"So cool…" Pony wiggled a little, causing the other girls to laugh and the tension to drain away.
The girls all laughed and began changing, hoping that Flintlock gave Minoru the punishment he deserved.
Minoru sat in his assigned chair back in the Foundational Heroics classroom, like Flintlock told him to do. The thought of running crossed his mind, but he crushed that thought and feared what she would do if he did. Hell, she probably expected him to run!
The class had been dismissed, and he was the only one in the classroom, judging by their schedule it should be lunch time… so what was taking so long? Was she going to expel him?
As if on cue, the door opened.
"Sorry about that. Had to make a pit stop." Flintlock casually said as she entered the room, Hero outfit replaced by a T-shirt and Jeans.
Minoru closed his eyes in terror. 'A pit stop? Oh no! She went to grab more weapons or something, didn't she?! She is from America. Her version of detention is probably the death penalty! Oh, Minoru, you're so dead! You're so-' His thoughts cut out as he heard something click on the table softly, and he peaked open his eyes a little.
A bento box was placed in front of him.
"I didn't know what you would want, so I asked Lunch Rush to just make what you had yesterday for orientation day. He has an amazing memory when it comes to what he cooked for someone." Flintlock said as she moved a table around so she could sit down facing Minoru. Once she was situated, she opened her own box of food.
"Alright, Mineta." She picked up her chopsticks, calmly split them, and looked at him.
"Let's talk."